The CCINDLE evidence bites offer handy summaries of key research outputs from across our team, creating a practical resource for politicians, campaigners, and practitioners interested in how anti-gender and anti-democratic movements work together, and how feminist resistance can protect rights and safeguard democracy. The new batch of nine evidence bites ask:
- How do anti-gender actors blur the idea of gender equality into a sprawling critique of globalisation?
- How has ‘freedom of religion’ been weaponised to threaten the rights of women, migrants, LGBT+ communities and others?
- How are feminists in the Spanish and Catalan parliaments resisting the growing political power of far-right and populist actors?
- How does a galaxy of Italian anti-gender actors on social media share and adapt a core set of themes, from family values to anti-trans sentiment?
- How do press opinions pieces add to the marginalisation of trans voices in the media and their daily lives?
- How do anti-gender politicians in the European Parliament use ‘unpolitics’ tactics to stifle gender equality policy and processes without explicitly rejecting its goals?
- How do Spanish parliamentarians experience and utilise the emotional dynamics of resistance to far-right forces?
- Why do anti-gender movements in Belgium and Italy devote so much energy to demonising trans people?
- How does conflict over reproductive rights in Poland link back to its transition from communism?
Catch up on the whole evidence bite series here, with previous editions exploring how anti-gender politics draw on European legacies of capitalism, colonialism, and fascism, how anti-gender mobilisations in Belgium centre trans issues, the nature of ‘feminist knowledge production’, how anti-gender actors operate in historically progressive nations, and what makes political parties foreground gender issues in their manifestos.
Author: Alex Murphy, Trilateral Research. 9th February 2026